As the world watched in shock, white supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Was this a “turning point” in history? How are the actions and ambitions of contemporary white supremacists shaped by modern histories of anti-Black and anti-Asian racism and the historical ambition in “white man’s countries” to create a world order based on racial domination and exclusion? Professor Mae Ngai spoke at Villanova University on October 27th, 2021 in a panel entitled “Global Histories of White Supremacy.”
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… Read More >>NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Renzo Aroni, historian of modern Latin America, about the legacy of Abimael Guzmán, founder of the Shining Path, who died on Saturday.
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